Garry Tonon Open To Return To Grappling

Sep 11, 2018BJJEEArticles

Garry Tonon broke out during the ADCC in 2013 officially. His performances were attractive to watch and he arguably left it all on the mat. Still the now MMA bound Tonon is leaving a door open for a grappling return.

According to his recent interview with flograppling he sees himself grappling at ONE:

I still want to do it and it could happen in ONE, they’re always doing grappling matches and kickboxing matches. I think they’re doing a boxing fight soon too. So maybe they’ll have me grapple one of their guys, maybe Ben Askren comes back, you could see a grappling super fight there. That would be something cool. I could see something like that happening for sure.

Tonon also recently addressed his cauliflower:

Tonon also recently shared some great instructions from Renzo Gracie:

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Many people when they hear me say that my main motivation for fighting is to become a better teacher, they are puzzled and concerned. “How could your main motivation be to teach?” How is your main motivation not money, success, fame, women etc.? In my mind I see everyone else that doesn’t think like me about this as crazy. I believe that if your main motivation is fame, money etc. even when you succeed you fail. I believe there needs to be deeper, long lasting motivation to derive fulfillment from your efforts. A man can only effectively wield and wave a sword till his body breaks, But a Man can change the world with his thoughts, ideas, and teaching till he loses his mind. I look to the future; teaching is my future, I will only be able to fight for a short time on this Earth. I will have the rest of my existence to change the world with my experience. In my eyes, the purpose of life is to make some positive impact on people. The longer lasting the impact the better. Cool to see that one of the guys I look up to @renzograciebjj shares a similar philosophy. #Repost @renzograciebjj #Repost We fight so that we can learn so that we can teach. 🥋🇧🇷 Nós lutamos para poder aprender para poder ensinar 🙌🙇

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